the manege, is the defence or resistance of a horse that interrupts his cadence, and the measure of his manege, occasioned either by a bad horseman or by the malice of a horse.

Counter, is also the name of a counting-board in a shop, and of a piece of metal with a stamp on it, used in playing at cards.

Counter of a Horse, that part of a horse's forehand which lies between the shoulders and under the neck.

Counters in a ship are two. 1. The hollow arching from the gallery to the lower part of the straight piece of the stern, is called the upper-counter. 2. The lower counter is between the transom and the lower part of the gallery.

Counter, is also the name of two prisons in the city of London, viz. the Poultry and Woodstreet.

Countors, Countours, or Counters, has been used for sergeants at law, retained to defend a cause, or to speak for their client in any course of law.

It is of these Chaucer speaks:

— A sheriff had he been, and a countour, Was nowhere such a worthy wassour.

They were anciently called serjeant contours.

Countries, among the miners, a term or appellation they give to their works under ground.